Assistance for persons with special needs

Reimbursement of relevant expenses of workplace adjustments

What

An employer who hires a person with special needs who requires adapting to work may be entitled to reimbursement of relevant costs in a lump sum. Adapting includes the technical and technological equipping the workplace, capital equipment, premises and equipment in accordance with the possibilities and needs of employees with special needs.

Where

National Employment Service (NES) provides operational and technical support implementing programs of active employment policy aimed at employers and people with special needs.

MORE INFO: Programs of employment support for persons with disabilities (available in Serbian – Latin language) http://www.nsz.gov.rs/live/trazite-posao/dok-trazite-posao/programi/podr_ka_u_zapo_ljavanju_osoba_sa_invaliditetom.cid225

Exemption from paying contributions

What

The Law on Mandatory Social Insurance stipulates that the employer, who hires a person with special needs, is exempt from the obligation to pay contributions for compulsory social for a period of 3 years from the date of employing the person.

The right to be exempt from paying contributions do not have public authorities and organizations, public enterprises, public services and other direct or indirect budget beneficiaries.

Where

NES provides operational and technical support implementing programs of active employment policy aimed at employers and people with special needs.

Implementing public work programs, which engages unemployed persons with special needs

What

This type of program hires unemployed people with special needs in order to preserve and improve job skills or work, social integration of people with special needs in the labor market, as well as realizing particular social interest.

Where

NES provides operational and technical support implementing programs of active employment policy aimed at employers and people with special needs.

Programs of employment support for persons with disabilities (available in Serbian – Latin language)
http://www.nsz.gov.rs/live/trazite-posao/dok-trazite-posao/programi/podr_ka_u_zapo_ljavanju_osoba_sa_invaliditetom.cid225

Self- employment subsidy

What

It is entitled to unemployed, registered at the NES who have completed training to start their own business. Self-employment subsidy is a lump sum of RSD 220,000.00 (1846.58EUR in 2017) for unemployed persons with special needs establishing shops, cooperatives or other forms of entrepreneurship, as well as establishing company, if a founder is employed within it.

Where

NES provides operational and technical support implementing programs of active employment policy aimed at employers and people with special needs.

MORE INFO: Programs of employment support for persons with disabilities (available in Serbian – Latin language)
http://www.nsz.gov.rs/live/trazite-posao/dok-trazite-posao/programi/podr_ka_u_zapo_ljavanju_osoba_sa_invaliditetom.cid225

Association of enterprises for professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with special needs.

What

Enterprise for professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with special needs is a legal entity that employs and performs professional rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, in accordance with the Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities.

Where

MORE INFO: Association for Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities
(available in Serbian – Latin language)
http://www.uips.rs/

Work center

What

Work center is a special form of the institution providing work engagement as therapeutic activity of persons with special needs that cannot be employed or maintain employment neither under general not under special conditions, whose efficiency is less than one-third of working performance of the employee on a typical workplace.

Where

MORE INFO:
The law on rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities
(available in Serbian – Latin language)
http://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/zakon_o_profesionalnoj_rehabilitaciji_i_zaposljavanju_osoba_sa_invaliditetom.html

Social enterprises and organizations

What

According to the law, this type of enterprise is established in order to perform the activity directed to meet the needs of persons with special needs, where, regardless of the total number of employees, has employed at least one person with special needs.

Where